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One Person Tested For The Deadly Ebola Virus In Columbus
WBNS ^ | August 5, 2014 | 10TV Web Staff

Posted on 08/05/2014 9:31:28 AM PDT by Raebie

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To: VRWCarea51
VRWCarea51:" Just one infected person coming in across our southern border and being then held in a detention center for a week or so
would create a nation wide crisis the scals of which this country has never seen."

One infected person in a DHS detention center,
and a DHS who doesn't even know , or track these foreign nationals,
whose job it is to track and keep the nation safe.
Go figure !
Why we even have DHS / ICE , because they aren't even defending us, ..much less the border !!

61 posted on 08/06/2014 4:39:31 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners ! Charlton Heston)
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To: Raebie; Kartographer

It’s only a matter of time.


62 posted on 08/06/2014 5:23:52 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ansel12

That doesn’t seem natural to me.


63 posted on 08/07/2014 5:02:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

So you build an Ebola treatment clinic, and when you get two Americans dying of Ebola, it isn’t natural to treat them at the Ebola clinic?


64 posted on 08/07/2014 7:29:29 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

By purposely bringing the first Ebola sufferers to the continent? No, I don’t think so.


65 posted on 08/07/2014 8:08:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Purposefully? Yeah we do that when an American doctor, or any American gets sick in primitive places.

Do you think all of our military and CDC people working with Ebola in Africa, and merely living in Africa, are being told that it is a one way trip if they get sick?


66 posted on 08/07/2014 8:11:35 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

We shouldn’t. We should hire local nurses and doctors, send in all of the equipment needed, and tend to them there. That’s more or less what we do with many military and, I presume, CDC people abroad.

(I’m not for sending more Americans over to take care of them either—we’ve got good communications now anywhere, and specialists can direct the care from the U.S.)


67 posted on 08/07/2014 8:20:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

That is sure easy to say, that we can duplicate our 4 isolation units and all the support and infrastructure in Africa, but evidently it isn’t so easy, and after trying to do that, you would make it only for Americans, or let the Africans overwhelm it?

This is what the military and the missionaries do, and any American anywhere on earth is susceptible to getting this disease or any other disease that needs American treatment, why panic so badly that you think we can’t treat people and must abandon them to what is available in Africa?

What do you think this clinic was built for twelve years ago? America and Canada work with a lot of Ebola here in the United States and Canada.


68 posted on 08/07/2014 8:29:56 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

American military facilities are not open to any and all indigent, local patients. I’d set up a military facility there and yes, allow Americans to be treated.

And after the news of the last couple of weeks, I don’t feel to good about the CDC’s handling of any particularly virulent strains of anything. More government staffers doing work at government levels of quality.


69 posted on 08/07/2014 8:37:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
While our doctor was brought to one of four special isolation units built in the united States, in his case the one at Emory, built for the CDC labs down the street, here is what the conditions are in Africa. Look at the kid eating and wandering around.

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A health worker, wearing personal protection gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola virus disease (EVD), at a treatment centre for infected persons in Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone in this August, 2014 handout photo provided by UNICEF August 6, 2014.

70 posted on 08/07/2014 8:38:07 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

I’m not suggest any Americans get treated in those conditions. I’m suggesting the military set up a unit and then staff it locally, with oversight from specialists in the U.S. Is that so hard to understand?


71 posted on 08/07/2014 10:13:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

We already have the Army, the CDC and civilian missionaries all treating and working on Ebola in Africa, but if one of our Americans gets it, they expect to come to our top Ebola medical facilities in the states for treatment, not to be condemned to what is available in Africa.

Seriously, if we can’t treat an Ebola victim in the U.S. then why are we working with it here, and what does that say about being able to deal with the threat of Ebola in the U.S.?

Do you think that our specialized Ebola treatment centers are where the threat is?


72 posted on 08/07/2014 10:34:23 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: mojito
there was “little chance” that the disease would travel beyond West Africa.

So Hussein flew in a boatload of em for a "summit".

73 posted on 08/10/2014 12:59:18 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Raebie

The early plasma tests are unreliable. They false negative if the virus isn’t in a high enough concentration.


74 posted on 08/10/2014 1:20:57 AM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (I do not advocate the use of violence. It works but I don't advocate it. YMMV Improvise.)
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