Posted on 10/21/2014 8:13:07 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Why is the United States not closing all flights from the affected areas, and why is it still issuing travel visas to citizens from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea?
The Congressional Research Service has been driving the legislative debate since 1914, giving our Congressmen information on various topics. The latest report on October 3, 2014, entitled, “Ebola: Basics about the Disease,” by Sarah Lister, Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology, provides the following information obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Ebola outbreak began in December 2013 in Guinea and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone by March 2014.
Ebola virus is a filo-virus named after the Ebola River in Zaire, with five different strains; the Zaire strain is causing the current outbreak.
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If a case happened on Capitol Hill, things would be very different.
Idiocy about how this works is expected when we read about the way plague was treated in the 15th century.
There is NO excuse for this kind of ignorance NOW!
This is the much different from the if you have no symptoms, your are not contagious they are telling the public.
You have to pass the Ebola before you can find out what’s in it, eh CONgre$$. Blistered, infected ban-the-Redskins BUMP!
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
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