Posted on 07/27/2014 2:57:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa’s largest city with 21 million people.
The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola’s symptoms are similar to other diseases.
Officials in the country of Togo, where the sick man’s flight had a stopover, also went on high alert after learning that Ebola could possibly have spread to a fifth country.
Screening people as they enter the country may help slow the spread of the disease, but it is no guarantee Ebola won’t travel by airplane, according to Dr. Lance Plyler, who heads Ebola medical efforts in Liberia for aid organization Samaritan’s Purse.
“Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid,” he said.
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She was part of the 80s Brat Pack.
Be glad that Judd Nelson was not Stu Redman or Anthony Michael Hall, Randall Flagg.
Anthony Michael Hall as Flagg...?
*snicker*
“But, No, have to be PC”
There is a call out there to remove the restrictions preventing homosexual men from donating blood. Don’t want to hurt their feelings.
We got that other brat pack pretty boy as Nick Andros, so why not?
The casting for Cullen and Redman were good and Nadine Cross was tolerable.
Lloyd and Trashy were perfect.
He starred in the TV version of The Dead Zone.
The world is full of gruesome possibilities.
[Walken ruled...as usual]
Hell, for all we know, there are people coming across the border that are infected.
That happy old standby, bubonic plague is hitchhiking in.
Do you know what a quarantine is?
You are dead wrong. Plenty of women have gotten Aids from sleeping with infected men. We even have the first documented case of HIV female to female transmission.
Ping...
Any survivors would be medical heroes as vaccine donors.
Swine flu was already here when it was found to come from Mexico. My son had it before it was all the rage. He got it courtesy of his baseball coach who had vacationed in Mexico. Coach thought he had a bad cold. Then he became rather ill. Son missed a week of school. A month after that is when they started calling it swine flu. Most of son’s school had had it by that time.
coming to a border near you
In Africa there are many, many rapes which would explain it entering the blood stream. Maybe anal copulation or shared needles for hetero couples in US.
Over here/check this out ping.
Except to punish Israel. I agree with you though, it is past time institute a quarantine seriously.
yes this is true, but normally it takes about ten exposures for the woman to become ill.
Mucus membranes are good enough - there is worse than this to consider though.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Oh great.
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