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US To Unveil New Ebola-Related Travel Bans As WHO Admits More Cases "Unavoidable"
Just hours after the World Health Organization warned "It is quite unavoidable, that [Ebola] incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around," CDC Director Tom Frieden announced that:
- U.S. TO ANNOUNCE FURTHER TRAVEL MEASURES VS EBOLA IN DAYS: CDC
This merely confirms all suspicions and our earlier note that 'air traffic is the driver' of global contagion.
Europe will almost inevitably see more cases of the deadly Ebola virus within its borders but the continent is well prepared to control the disease, the World Health Organization's regional director said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Reuters just hours after Europe's first local case of Ebola infection was confirmed in a nurse in Spain, the WHO's European director, Zsuzsanna Jakab, said further such events were "unavoidable".
Spanish health officials said four people had been hospitalized to try and stem any further spread of Ebola there after the nurse became the first person in the world known to have contracted the virus outside of Africa.
"Such imported cases and similar events as have happened in Spain will happen also in the future, most likely," Jakab told Reuters in a telephone interview from her Copenhagen office.
"It is quite unavoidable ... that such incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around."
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"But the most important thing...is that Europe is still at low risk and that the western part of the European region particularly is the best prepared in the world to respond to viral hemorrhagic fevers including Ebola."
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So don't panic!
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"Air traffic is the driver," warns Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston...predicting where the virus will spread...
There is a 50 per cent chance a traveller carrying the disease could touch down in the UK by October 24, a team of U.S. researchers have predicted.
Using Ebola spread patterns and airline traffic data they have calculated the odds of the virus spreading across the world.
They estimate there is a 75 per cent chance Ebola will reach French shores by October 24.
And Belgium has a 40 per cent chance of seeing the disease arrive on its territory, while Spain and Switzerland have lower risks of 14 per cent each.
'It's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."
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LOL.
Most likely.
I still can't figure out how that Dallas patient got a VISA and enough money to fly to America in 2 days.
Since he has family in the USA and he's visited them in the past, it's likely he has a multiple-entry visa. As for airfare, Expedia lists a Liberia to Dallas flight at $2600, which can be charged to any credit card.
Of course air traffic is the driver...did anyone think it wasn't? That's not exactly a deep call ZH.
The fact that the government is doing everything they can to not have the wheels of our broken global economic system come to a half if they start cancelling flights is also no surprise. If we stop flying, shopping for just a short while, this inept systems collapses.
I don't know how anyone could down-vote that. People here must be retarded.
People here must be retarded"---Yah think ! you just noticed this ?
ZHers have been calling for a halt to air traffic from infected countries for months while governments, worldwide, were saying it wasn't necessary.
So what's the big fucking hurry?
I'm speculating here, but maybe they know of more cases than have been made public and they're getting a bit concerned so have had a recent change of heart around travel policy.
That, and they have to manage "perceptions" now. People are starting to use the words "fuck up" a lot recently, and the last thing a .gov functionary wants is to be on the pointed end of "you fucked up". Carreer limiting, esp since higher level fuck ups are always looking for lower level fuck ups to toss under the fuck-up-bus.
it was sarcasm :) And cougar, I think the worst FU message recieved would go something like "You Fucked Up and contracted Ebola". That's gonna dent the career sooner than later!
The fuck ups in government don't catch ebola and they know it.
What they catch is treason. Just as lethal as ebola, mind you, and it goes for lying rich bastards. They fuck up enough they catch treason and next thing you know they end up against a wall at dawn with a cigarette and a blind-fold.
You think they don't get that part? Like hell they don't.
Nobody seems to be flying into Israel or Alaska.
Poor Jewish Polar bears.
In order to help contain EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeboli
Dear leader is opeing the boarders further to allow all those who are sick safe haven in the U.S.
Jon Rappoport - CDC Fraud: Vaccine Autism Link & Ebola
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/09/RIR-140926.php
September 26, 2014
Jon Rappoport is an investigative journalist, author and publisher of the website nomorefakenews.com. He has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. He returns to give a complete run down on the recent CDC scandal. On August 25, 2014 the CDC published a press release defending its 2004 study on autism. Two days later CDC whistleblower publicly admits he and his co-authors cooked that study and committed fraud. The CDC was referring to the 2004 study whistleblower William Thompson co-authored, the study he admitted was fraudulent, the study he and his co-authors slanted to bury the connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. Jon discusses the complexities behind this huge cover-up. Actor, Rob Schneider also said he has a copy of "the original CDC report that was later suppressed and fraudulently changed." Later, Jon talks about the striking similarity between the Thompson and Snowden stories. In this extended interview, we’ll continue discussing the vaccine as well as the length the CDC and government will go to obscure damage they’ve created. We’ll move on to talk about the Ebola epidemic. We’ll hear how the CDC is getting their numbers on cases and how it is being diagnosed. The CDC claims that there will be “1 million Ebola cases by January.” As Ebola victims fly into Western nations, Jon discusses what possible scenarios are being planned in the near future in Western nations.
http://rediceradio.net/radio/2014/RIR-140926-jonrappoport.mp3
Putting our trust in the-powers-that-be will be the death of us all....literally!
http://olduvai.ca
Fn morons... ebola has a 100% chance of being in all those countries by late October., or sooner.
it is already there. read the papers. i guarantee it. not be alarmist. now, it's what's the next move?
A good article on HOW HOSPITALS are NOT PREPARED FOR THIS> We are fucked if this thing breaks out.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-math.html
That's an amazing article. In the US there are only 23 hospital isolation rooms suitable for holding ebola patients. In the whole f'n US. Our maximum capacity for ebola patients is 23!
We should eclipse 23 by next week.....I'll be in the country.
That's well written, thanks.
Facts are stubborn things.
Thanks to Europe we in the UK cannot control our borders.
You could move to Scotland....no, wait. Carry on.
Did you say Europe?
http://tinyurl.com/mxyjf9o
Belgium....phew!
Judging by that graphic, anyone living in the UK might be safer moving to Nigeria.
Yup, it appears that the US and the UK are the top two Ebola travel destinations.
Based on the graphic, yes,
but you first;)
there will be no ebola epidemic. It's all lies, smokes and mirrors so they can limit our rights! No trave first, stay within your state next, followed by mandatory vaccines and for those who resist and nice internment camp.
Shut up.
There is a spoon, Neo.
Fuck these guys. It should have been done back in July.
Those with plans and the ability to adapt always get through. Prepare
http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....
Think of the fucking irony in a few months when this plague is roaring through Europe and North America, but not Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, and others, simply because even though their borders have to be fucking porous, at least their not ACTIVELY FUCKING ENCOURAGING TRAVEL INTO DEATHZONES. Fuck me, I'm losing my fucking mind watching this.
You are my catharsis.
"Western part of the European region particularly is the best prepared in the world to respond to viral hemorrhagic fevers including Ebola."
Bollocks. Absolute bollocks.
There are so many blatant assumptions in this statement that it is a joke. Yes, if someone flies into Heathrow during the day and presents at a London teaching hospital with a tropical and infectious diseases specialist department, Britain might be able to cope with it, but there is nothing to say an Ebola victim will not travel to a regional airport, nor that they will first attend a major city hospital.
If someone flies into Britain from Belgium and lands at Leeds/Bradford, it is doubtful they will be stopped at border control unless they are noticeably sick. And then there is nothing to say they won't first attend A&E at a local hospital, say in Hudderfield or Dewsbury, rather than a university or teaching hospital in Bradford or Leeds, or that they won't attempt to see a GP first. If they do that, we are *fucked*.
"snow will be a rare and wonderful event, that our children will probably never see". You're fucked alright; because you have a government.
Most (if not all) of the UK Regional airports support frequent flights to and from the EU. Many smaller airports have very good onward road / rail connections (e.g. Southampton Eastleigh - literally built on the main Southampton - London Main Line, offering daily flights to many EU destinations, including the current location of interest - Spain. http://www.southamptonairport.com/destinations/
Passport control / "Immigration" was not particularly demanding (but that was 15 years ago, maybe times have changed!)
Just another good reason why being a borderline hermit (not for religious reasons but because humanity sucks) kicks ass although the 5-8 people I come into contact with on a daily basis would probably end up screwing me over. Good thing I don't care about when I die so no biggie if I get ebola and kick the bucket.
Day Late and Dollar Short for Travel Bans, is it not?
That should have been the first thing done before we sent in the Quarrantine (as in, they're staying there for the duration or we'll QT them somewhere deserted for 6 Months) Teams.
Wait one... we DIDN'T send in the Quarrantine Teams!!! We just let them mosey on about, catch a Virus, and flew them back in for treatment.
Thus is the folly of having Missionary Doctors become First Responders for BioHazard Outbreaks.
These CDC guys are fuckin' geniuses ! When are they sending their 1st man to the Moon?
why don't you go suck a pacifier in a cave if you are so afraid. I have one prediction, the FLU will kill 10 times more people than Ebola. You people are afraid of your own shadow.
I tend to agree with you. RNA viruses are not very impressive. it makes a good media event because the few people who do manage to get infected have a dramatic course of symptoms; but they certainly aren't any deader than a flu victim.
Does the flu have a 50% mortality rate across all age groups? No. You can STFU now.
HUH?
How many need to die before it meets your threshold for taking measures? The fact that doctors and nurses are getting this despite precautions is a very scary thing.
I worked in SF General at the height of the 1980's AIDS scare and this sort of thing just didn't happen unless someone was careless with needles, but those were obvious protocol accidents. Transmissability of this thing is still very slippery.
Why not err on the side of caution? Government has been wrong about everything else. There's no reason to think they are right on this.
humanity ducked the gun on a bunch of things.
MILLIONS of people did not duck AIDS. tens of thousands of people died just in NYC over the years. the difference was, it remained relatively difficult to transmit.
the other scares, sars, bird flus, avion flus were luck. it could have been worse.
this is science. it's a matter of luck and planning if the thing spreads and/or mutates.
this time, we might not be so lucky. it is so much better to be safe, then unlucky. plague happens. it happens across mankind.
we really aren't that much smarter, unless we decide to be. betting on luck just isn't worth the downside.
the upside is great, and the cost of being prudent really is not that large.
The USA, aka POTUS, finally admitting the obvious about EBOLA (due to bad polling and upcoming elections)...
.....Now if they'd just admit they are arming ISIS, bombing Syria for a pipeline, and using the IRS to target individuals we'd really be getting somewhere.
Only a month too late. The usual for Obuttdart.
I guess someone important got to Frieden and let him know what an idiot he is. We really need a no nonsense type of person in charge to have any fighting chance at all with this thing. This is a fight for survival. The PC crowd needs to STFU and take a back seat.
Good luck finding anyone in government to do that job.
The one important factor about Ebola which the WHO and assorted medics have gone to great lengths to avoid discussing and denying when necessary is whether Ebola is "airborne". Perhaps it is mutating and has become so.
Growing evidence looks like it may be. There are simply too many people wearing protective clothing etc who are becoming infected.
"Air traffic is the driver," warns Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston...predicting where the virus will spread..
Should be stopped at the SOURCE= Africa
Ebola
Ugly wrench in the progressive's immigration political gearup of open borders
USSA would be the last to setup a no-fly zone
We shall see, how far .gov. lets this go.
The source is now also the US and Spain, possibly even Austria if the kid from Liberia tests positive.
Horse left the barn. Quick, check our 5,000 page procedure book. Hurry up, lock the barn door.
Right, they'll not let anyone that has come into the US out if they have ebola.
Ebola carriers: PLEASE stay away from Americans, instead fly into Washington DC!
Please, please ban flights to Nigeria so I don't have to go back to work on the rig. It would be better than any snow day cancelation evah!!!
Why do you like long ocean Cruises on small boats?
Ok, so they want to fly from Liberia or any stricken area, to the US. Or anyplace, really. Here's an idea, Congress. Since you are so good at starting Agencies, how about making a list of people that want to come to America and have them buy their ticket 21 days in advance, AND they have to Register to Travel at the same time w/your newly created Agency.
Name ain't on the list, and 21 days haven't elapsed, then they don't fly. Simple. I figure the Justice Dept or somebody should be able to implement this Program within normal required 2 years or so from now. /s
But that fucktard in our government said travel restrictions would make the spread worse. Jesus. Who's running this thing?