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Nebraska biocontainment unit prepared for the worst
journalstar.com (Lincoln Journal Star) ^ | August 6, 2014 | Chris Dunker

Posted on 08/08/2014 6:52:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe

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1 posted on 08/08/2014 6:52:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...


2 posted on 08/08/2014 6:52:51 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Nothing to see here.


3 posted on 08/08/2014 6:53:56 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

22? A whole 22?

This is for the upper crust of the EXEMPT.
They are protected, of course.


4 posted on 08/08/2014 6:54:58 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Lurker

How arrogant do a president and bureaucracy have to be to willingly, purposely transport a killer disease into the nation’s interior?


5 posted on 08/08/2014 6:58:22 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Smokin' Joe
One of my nieces former roommates, and long time friend, works in that hospital.

This does not fill me with joy.

6 posted on 08/08/2014 7:02:20 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

We have “cried wolf” so many times over the last few decades (swine flu, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc), I think most Americans take these things with a grain of salt ... which might be a lead in to a great medical disaster in the near future.


7 posted on 08/08/2014 7:04:55 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Smokin' Joe

Maybe just a test. Maybe just to evaluate how prepared we are when the ISLAMIC STATE (aka ISIS) starts delivering martyrs with screwed up diseases.


8 posted on 08/08/2014 7:06:42 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Smokin' Joe; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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...

9 posted on 08/08/2014 7:30:17 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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What surprises me is that nebraska med center is a big transplant facility filled with immunosuppressed patients. Buffett is building a big cancer center there too. Why oh why would such a disease such as Ebola would be brought into this gone facility is troubling. Even if they have concrete rooms,etc it’s still troubling. They issued a a piece on Facebook about how it’s not easy to catch blah blah which I discovered was written by someone whose an editor for Mother Jones and wrote for the Seattle a Times.


10 posted on 08/08/2014 7:49:40 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: relictele

Just think if either of those planes had crashed...


11 posted on 08/08/2014 7:55:49 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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Why oh why would such a disease such as Ebola would be brought into this gone facility is troubling.


The Doctors there must not be concerned. We haven’t heard a peep.


12 posted on 08/08/2014 7:58:07 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Here is a good simulated image of what the Ebola virus looks like. You would need a very good electron microscope to see it this big.

Russian scientists visualize Ebola virus molecule

Darn thing can actually incorporate human proteins into its outer layers.

14 posted on 08/08/2014 8:31:25 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Just a thought I had. I wonder how the mosquitoes carrying the Ebola virus would fare with DDT in use.

Does Ebola now join Malaria to make a new total of deaths attributable to Rachel?


15 posted on 08/08/2014 8:39:06 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Darn thing can actually incorporate human proteins into its outer layers.

All viruses do that. It is a consequence of the way they replicate.

16 posted on 08/08/2014 8:40:40 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: El Gato

Unless she is trained to work in a containment suite, there is little chance she would be involved with the care of an Ebola patient brought to that hospital.

The containment suites are built in such a way that no virus will ever escape. Workers entering the suite wear impermeable spacesuits. An accidental needle stick or other event that causes damage to the spacesuit could expose a worker... but short of penetration with sharp objects, the suits are impermeable.


17 posted on 08/08/2014 8:47:33 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: El Gato

One of my nieces former roommates, and long time friend, works in that hospital.
This does not fill me with joy.


You might want to call her and get the straight dope before you panic.


18 posted on 08/08/2014 8:47:38 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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I’d think that the case of the American who collapsed and died in Nigeria, passing his infection on to at least eight others who cared for and cleaned up after him, would be a worst case scenario. Once they get to the containment facility, things are more controlled and safer, even for the medical staff.


19 posted on 08/08/2014 9:30:24 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Thanks, good info. I’m just four freeway hours away from one of those labs. Phew.


20 posted on 08/08/2014 9:32:50 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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