Posted on 09/28/2014 1:41:44 PM PDT by Patriot777
You sound like quite the inspirational guy, our GIs stationed in Africa and our Christian missionaries and CDC workers don’t rank very high on your scale.
Yea, they shouldn’t be there either. How many GI’s do we have stationed in West Africa again? I can’t imagine why there are any. And, how many of them did you say had got the virus such that we needed to extract them?
As for Christian (and all other missionaries) they take their chances. They are not there on behalf of US interests. So, God can extract them from their self-inflicted peril.
If you want to block Americans and our GIs from coming home for medical care, you better figure out some way to do it, because it isn’t happening.
That is exactly how the smallpox/cowpox vaccination was developed.
IIRC the original patient was a volunteer - the Doctor vaccinated himself and then exposed himself to smallpox.
Something like that could be necessary with Ebola.
A major reason why we do not have Ebola vaccines or drugs is that we simply cannot do the phase 3 efficacy testing in humans. Even the phase 1 safety testing has proven problematic. The FDA has an animal rule--but even for that to apply, we'd need more data on how Ebola affects humans.
When Dr. Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine, he had some observational data to back up his self-experiment. He had noted that milkmaids who got cowpox never came down with smallpox. There is no such observational data to support the testing of Ebola Reston as a potential vaccine for Ebola Zaire. The two viruses are found in different areas of the world--Reston is in Asia, Zaire is in Africa. Testing of cross-reactivity cannot be done in monkeys, since they get fatal illness from both strains. Furthermore, even though the only people who have had Reston did not get sick, there is no guarantee that it does not sicken other people.
From a drug development standpoint, Ebola is really difficult.
I said quarantine them. Don’t you know anything about contagious disease management?
They do isolate/quarantine them, in the world’s most advanced isolation treatments clinics, so what are you talking about?
I assume English is not your primary language.
I said that returning citizens should be quarantined. You said how are you going to block re-entry.
I said read my post again, moron. Or, at least that’s what I should have said.
In other words you are just an idiot, with no real input, just a troll personality that wants to vent on the internet.
Could you go to Africa and help with the Ebola victims? I think you would do well there. I have a couple of masks I would give you.
Like I pointed out, you are trolling, with nothing real to say.
“Like I pointed out, you are trolling, with nothing real to say.”
And, I am sure this is one of your very best posts.
To: ansel12
I assume English is not your primary language.
I said that returning citizens should be quarantined. You said how are you going to block re-entry.
I said read my post again, moron. Or, at least that’s what I should have said.
Funny how this stuff just seems to happen. Here were were arguing about quarantine for US citizens returning from West Africa and the next day one pops up who managed to go to the hospital with symptoms after flying in from Liberia and was sent home to infect others. Brilliant. Our national disease control scheme at work.
For my part, I’d block all re-entry iuntil a quarantine period passed with no symptoms.
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