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As US Politicians Consider Travel Bans, Istanbul Quarantines Hospital Of Suspected Ebola Patient
Istanbul's Marmar University Training and Research Hospital is not accepting new patients after, as Daily Sabah reports, a person suspected of being infected with Ebola has been quarantined. The patient, who arrived by plane from Ivory Coast, is suffering high fever and nausea. While Lagos, Nigeria was CDC Director Frieden's worst nightmare with regard Ebola contagion, we suspect Istanbul is a close second with over 14 million people living there. This news comes as US politicians begin to call for visa restrictions and travel bans from infected nations.
- *MAN WITH EBOLA HOSPITALIZED IN ISTANBUL: DAILY SABAH
- *ISTANBUL HOSPITAL TEMPORARILY QUARANTINED ON EBOLA: DAILY SABAH
A man arriving from Ivory Coast infected with the Ebola virus has been hospitalized in Istanbul on Wednesday.
The patient was brought to the Marmara University Education and Research Hospital. He was diagnosed with Ebola after landing in Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport. The hospital was briefly quarantined and current patients immediately were transferred to other hospitals.
The patient will be transferred to Süreyyapa?a Breast Diseases Education and Research Hospital on Thursday morning.
?stanbul'da Ebola karantinas? http://t.co/AMP42gcIba pic.twitter.com/ZLkiPJKaPo
— NTV (@ntv) October 15, 2014
Just before this news broke, US politicians started raising the rhetoric on travel bans...
- *MCCAUL, R-TX, IS CHAIRMAN OF U.S. HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY CMTE
- *REP. MCCAUL CALLS FOR U.S. VISA SUSPENSION FOR EBOLA-HIT NATION
- *MCCAUL PROPOSED VISA BAN FOR LIBERIA, GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE
House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul says a temporary travel ban targeting Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is needed until the outbreak of Ebola “is under control.”
McCaul, R-Texas, called on the Departments of State, Homeland Security to temporarily suspend visas of individuals from those countries
Travel ban would impact 13,500 visas, McCaul says
McCaul’s letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson co-signed by subcmte chairmen Reps. Peter King, Candice Miller, Jeff Duncan, Richard Hudson, Susan Brooks, all Republicans
And then:
- *BOEHNER: U.S. SHOULD MULL TRAVEL BAN FROM COUNTRIES WITH EBOLA
- *HOUSE 'READY TO ACT' IF EBOLA LEGISLATION NEEDED: BOEHNER
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the growing Ebola crisis:
“Our hearts go out to the health care workers who have contracted the Ebola virus here in the United States, as well as those who have been impacted by it around the globe. We pray for their speedy recovery, and we pray for those who are helping to treat and care for these individuals, including our medical experts and military personnel who are in West Africa to help stem this deadly disease. Concerns about the possibility of an outbreak of this sort prompted the House to provide more funding for the CDC than requested, and the tragic developments seen in recent weeks demonstrate that decision was a prudent one.
“In a September 16 speech in Atlanta, President Obama said the ‘chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.’ Since that time, several Americans have been diagnosed with the virus and untold more potentially exposed to it. Today we learned that one individual who has contracted the virus flew to Ohio through the Cleveland airport in the last few days. A temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries afflicted with the virus is something that the president should absolutely consider along with any other appropriate actions as doubts about the security of our air travel systems grow.
“It is also imperative we ensure that federal, state and local agencies, along with our public health infrastructure, are prepared, remain vigilant, and follow proper protocols to identify the virus and take appropriate measures for those who have been exposed to it.
“Numerous committees – including the House Armed Services Committee and the Committees on Appropriations, Homeland Security, Energy & Commerce, and Transportation & Infrastructure – are actively assessing the administration’s response, and hearings have already begun. The Homeland Security Committee held a hearing in Dallas to examine the federal, state, and local response thus far. Tomorrow, the Energy & Commerce Committee will hear from the CDC and NIH to look into their response to the crisis. These oversight efforts will continue, and the House stands ready to act if it becomes clear legislation is needed to ensure the threat is countered aggressively and effectively.
“The administration must be able to assure Americans that we will stop the spread here at home. We will continue to press the administration for better information about what steps will be taken to protect the American people, including our troops, from this deadly virus. And we will work with the administration on appropriate policy options that will help stop the spread of this horrific disease both here in the United States and around the globe.”
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And so it begins...
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So when did flying between Texas and Ohio become an international route?
"one individual who has contracted the virus flew to Ohio through the Cleveland airport in the last few days. A temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries afflicted with the virus is something that the president should absolutely consider"
Stop being all logical and stuff, k.
Soon the city may be called Istan-bola...
It turns out that there is a vaccine against Ebola. Pentagon scientists were developing it for 30 years, and all the rights for the drug belong to the government of the United States. Two infected US medics received injections of the vaccine and they started recovering from the disease immediately. Why has this been made public only now?
Why is it that the USA holds all the rights for the use of the vaccine?There can be two most obvious answers to these questions.As one can see, Ebola is a perfect biological weapon: it spreads quickly and gives nearly 100% mortality rate. Those having the life-saving vaccine can dictate any conditions to others.
The second answer is a purely commercial interest. It is enough to arrange panic with the help of the media, as it was the case with several epidemics before, such as avian flu. Afterwards, it will be possible to sell the life-saving medicine at any price.
However, Russian scientists doubt that the Americans created the medicine indeed. Russian scientists also conducted the research to study the nature of the virus to be able to create the vaccine against it. Soviet scientists, for example, Professor Alexander Butenko, was a member of the joint Soviet-Guinean expedition in 1982 and spent nearly a year in the rain forests of Guinea, when the then unknown virus was discovered.
Strategy of Biological WarfareOn Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as National Security Adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture.
EBOLA Biological Warfare – Is India Prepared ?You've spammed the same shit in half a dozen places in the last few minutes.
What Soviet-Guinean expedition in 1982 discovered the then unknown virus in the rain forests of Guinea?
What two infected US medics received injections some vaccine and they started recovering from ebola immediately?
You're like a Nigerian scammer peddling poorly written, factually challenged doom porn for the gullible.
second that
I suppose all of us should be satisfied (?) that we were on top of this months ago, but it won't matter one bit when we get sick.
Ebola virus is so small (0.8-1 um x 0.08 um) that it can be spread even by the smallest droplets produced by a human breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing (smallest respiratory droplets are 5 um or smaller).
In this sense it absolutely is possible to be infected by droplets via air, and in addition the virus stays infectious for upto 90 minutes on surfaces. Anyone denying this is lying.
"Ebola is here....how are we going to deal with it".
Here's how to deal with it. Move Eric Holder and most of the London and New York banking establishment to Liberia with immediate effect.
I should win the Nobel Peace Prize for this idea.
Just wait till this hits, China, Hong Kong, Rio, Mexico City. You'll have people hanging on the wings of airliners landing in the US.
"BOEHNER: U.S. SHOULD MULL TRAVEL BAN FROM COUNTRIES WITH EBOLA..."
Mull? MULL?
We are way past mull, you fucking orange moron.