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American doctor infected with Ebola returns to U.S.
WaPo ^ | 8/2/2014 | Joel Achenbach, Brady Dennis and Caelainn Hogan

Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito

An American doctor stricken by Ebola in West Africa arrived home for treatment in Atlanta on Saturday, and U.S. government officials are urging the public to remain confident in the health-care system’s ability to keep the deadly disease isolated.

A charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, said two Americans in serious condition with the disease were being evacuated: Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who had been treating Ebola victims in Liberia, and Nancy Writebol, a missionary from Charlotte.

Brantly and Writebol have been hospitalized in serious condition in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Brantly was brought back to the United States first, in a specially equipped “air ambulance” aircraft that landed Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in the northwest Atlanta suburbs, according to news reports.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; ebola; emoryuniversity; franklingraham; hotzone; kentbrantly; samaritanspurse; samaritinespurse
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Everything's under control.

Our government is in charge.

What could go wrong?

1 posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito
Not the sort of thing I like to see on the news.


2 posted on 08/02/2014 10:46:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: mojito

Should have sent him to Gitmo!


3 posted on 08/02/2014 10:47:11 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formally known as Ursus Arctos Horribilis....,I')
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To: mojito

Doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion around here, but I think bringing them back for treatment is exactly the right thing to do. That’s assuming they can receive treatment here that’s superior to that in Africa.

We should never abandon our own for convenience, or even for safety. No more Benghazis!

Which is not to say that the government won’t screw it up.


4 posted on 08/02/2014 10:48:13 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: mojito

With all of the incompetents and “rogues” we’ve got working for the Federal government right now, I don’t think it’s going to be long before we hear a loud, OOPS! “Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy”.


5 posted on 08/02/2014 10:48:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: mojito

Big mistake.

I support Samaritan’s Purse but am very unsure if wisdom is being followed in allowing other Ebola-patient-treating Purse doctors to return on commercial airflights to the USA without first undergoing lengthy quarantining in Africa.


6 posted on 08/02/2014 10:48:53 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Forty-Niner

Hear, hear. I was wondering what would be a good alternative to give these good Christian healers the best medical care that they deserve.

God Bless them and all that attend to them, and please Lord keep us all safe from this disease.


7 posted on 08/02/2014 10:51:16 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: mojito

So if the doctor was doing all the right things to protect himself how did he get it?

Gitmo doesn’t seem like such a bad idea - however if it’s transmitted regardless of hazmat gear then even being in Gitmo wouldn’t ensure safety - unless everyone who went there never left.


8 posted on 08/02/2014 10:53:38 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: cripplecreek

How tough are those booties look like they are going though gravel


9 posted on 08/02/2014 10:53:52 AM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: mojito

I was really surprised he walked in.


10 posted on 08/02/2014 10:54:34 AM PDT by Raebie
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Considering we have a covert Islamic enemy agent posing as our POTUS, this stinks as yet another one of his side scams.


11 posted on 08/02/2014 10:55:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: al baby

I had the same thought.


12 posted on 08/02/2014 10:56:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Your tagline contradicts your statement. Curious to know your opinion of unicorns.


13 posted on 08/02/2014 10:56:26 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: Resettozero

Or is there some test for being infected with the virus? Not everybody who catches it gets sick, let alone dies.


14 posted on 08/02/2014 10:56:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Ben Casey and Kildare.

A paradox.


15 posted on 08/02/2014 10:57:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Forty-Niner

Nobody else has suggested this. I think Gitmo would have been the perfect place for the Ebola patients. OR....use Gitmo to ship off these sickly illegal alien invaders.


16 posted on 08/02/2014 10:57:27 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Sherman Logan
These health care providers are not military or government personnel. They went to Africa voluntarily knowing the danger. The US has no obligation to bring them back(on the taxpayers dime) and endanger the whole population to a virus that has no cure. It is not the right thing to do. It is better to be be selfless and sacrifice a few than risk the whole population.
17 posted on 08/02/2014 10:58:00 AM PDT by pterional
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To: mojito

Sanitation and other relevant overall conditions in African hospitals are not even vaguely similar to those in US hospitals.

Individual attention to PPE can only do so much.


18 posted on 08/02/2014 10:58:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I don’t think it’s going to be long before we hear a loud, OOPS! “Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy”.

They knew the risks and went there of their own accord. I have no sympathies for them and bringing them here is a very bad precedence. Presumably these two goody two shoes ostensibly were well versed in containment procedures, yet they became infected, so it is only a matter of time.

19 posted on 08/02/2014 10:58:40 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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Ebola probably isn’t an issue for everyday people in Western countries, but there are certain demographics, namely queers and recreational drug users, whose weakened immune systems undoubtedly make them highly susceptible.


20 posted on 08/02/2014 11:00:04 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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