Military preps team for Ebola response in US

CNN ^ | Oct 19, 2014 | Ben Brumfield and Eliott C. McLaughlin

[driftdiver]

(CNN) -- The U.S. military is forming a 30-person "quick strike team" equipped to provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States, a Defense Department official told CNN's Barbara Starr on Sunday.

A Pentagon spokesman later confirmed portions of the official's information.

The team will be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month, the official said.

The Department of Health and Human Services requested the military team, and the Pentagon has given verbal approval, the official said.

The team will include five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.

[Old Yeller]

Ummmm... Why the military?

Because they have acquired billions of rounds of ammo, so that we couldn't.

[driftdiver]

What part of that includes providing medical care to anyone let alone Americans?

[driftdiver]

I got 500 rounds today at Bass Pro Shops. Wife made me spend the rest of the money on clothes. What a useless waste.

[ansel12]

Here is a smoking gun, question raising article about the United States Army and President Obama.

The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID
1970s:
By the late 1970s, in addition to the work on Coxiella burnetii and other rickettsiae, research priorities had expanded to include the development of vaccines and therapeutics against Argentine, Korean and Bolivian hemorrhagic fevers, Lassa fever and other exotic diseases that could pose potential BW threats. In 1978, the Institute assisted with humanitarian efforts in Egypt when a severe outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) occurred there for the first time. The epidemic caused thousands of human cases and the deaths of large numbers of livestock. Diagnostics, along with much of the Institute's stock of RVF vaccine, were sent to help control the outbreak. At this time the Institute acquired both fixed and transportable BSL-4 containment plastic human isolators for the hospital care and safe transport of patients suffering from highly contagious and potentially lethal exotic infections.

In 1978, it established an Aeromedical Isolation Team (AIT) — a military rapid response team of doctors, nurses and medics, with worldwide airlift capability, designed to safely evacuate and manage contagious patients under BSL-4 conditions. A formal agreement was signed with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) at this time stipulating that USAMRIID would house and treat highly contagious infections in laboratory personnel should any occur. (After deploying on only four "real world" missions in 32 years, the AIT was ultimately decommissioned in 2010.)

[Senior1]

Not worried about obola, I think they are getting ready for this:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/19/dragon-egg-marines-who-guarded-saddam-mysterious-bunker-fear-weapons-unleashed/

[spokeshave]

I got 500 rounds today at Bass Pro Shops. Wife made me spend the rest of the money on clothes. What a useless waste

I don told you a thousand times ...save gas and shop for clothes at the Pro Bass Shop.

[Ann Archy]

I didn’t think the military was allowed to do anything like this inside the states!! I thought only National Guard was allowed to. I know it’s part of the military.......

[justa-hairyape]

So a 72 hour (3 day) response time after they test positive with Ebola ? Sounds like some cleaners we all know.

[bgill]

All 4 hours of preparation.

But, but they'll have gloves, little face masks and hand sanitizer!!

What is so quick about a "quick strike team" that shows up 3 days later?

Hey, Uncle Fred died of Ebola so we're leaving him out on the street for quick pick up team. No, we can't promise we can keep the neighborhood dogs and cats from nibbling on him until our scheduled appointment next Wednesday but we did chase off the neighbor's kid who was poking him with a stick.

[ansel12]

Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program

The National Capital Consortium offers subspecialty, fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The fellowship is a three-year program open to Army and Navy Medical Corps officers and designed to prepare internists for a successful career in both the clinical and research aspects of Infectious Diseases. The program is approved for five fellows each year.

[bgill]

Hope they get a suitable for framing Certificate of Completion signed by Klain so they can sit it on their Level 4 Unit bedside table.

[driftdiver]

Your faith in our government appalls me.

[ansel12]

What are you talking about?

You didn’t know this information about the military treating infectious disease patients and were saying you didn’t know they did, what did you see in it that set you off to attack me?

“Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program
The National Capital Consortium offers subspecialty, fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The fellowship is a three-year program open to Army and Navy Medical Corps officers and designed to prepare internists for a successful career in both the clinical and research aspects of Infectious Diseases. The program is approved for five fellows each year.”

[BAW]

Obola hates the military. Hillary does too. The military, in their view, is expendable for political purposes.

I would not want my son or daughter to join our nation's armed forces under this administration.

[BAW]

And . . . why not the US Public Health Service?

[driftdiver]

How many patients with infectious diseases does the military treat on an annual basis?

How many do civilian hospitals treat on an annual basis?

The research scientists may be positioned to help develop and provide information for ebola treatment but they are very very poorly positioned to provide the actual treatment.

The worlds leading scientists of ebola have caught the disease and died. Its abundantly obvious the very best dont know enough. Sacrificing members of the military who lack the proper training is hardly the best course of action.

[driftdiver]

I thought the CDC was the best agency for this? Isn’t that what we were told.

[ziravan]

The military can be ordered to treat someone.

Civilians can walk off the job.

That’s the difference.

[ansel12]

How many patients with infectious diseases does the military treat on an annual basis?

I don't know, a lot I imagine since military personnel are among the people in the dark corners of the world, including all over Africa.

I get your point, for some reason you think the military can't come up with 30 people for the response team, even though they did it for decades until Obama's administration.

You seem to have a very limited view of what the military does, and can do.

"The U.S. military has stationed uniformed scientists in the tropics for more than 100 years, and itsh active overseas laboratories have been in place for as long as 58 years. Military scientists live and work in the tropics to study the disease threats in naturally affected populations. Countermeasures and candidate solutions are studied through all phases of development including field testing."

[ansel12]

Does the CDC provide treatment and hospital services though?