Posted on 08/07/2014 8:58:23 AM PDT by mandaladon
With Ebola claiming more than 900 lives and a handful people in America receiving tests for the deadly virus, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa is convening a hearing Thursday to examine the threat.
“Around the country there is a heightened sense of concern. Hopefully we don’t go beyond the concern and containment is the key here,” Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ) said during a C-SPAN interview Thursday morning.
“We’re going to be talking about all things, including some of the potentially powerful drugs that might be able to overcome this horrific disease that just has such a high mortality rate,” he said, going on to add that the epidemic “is not even close to being over.”
Thursday afternoon’s hearing will feature Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden, Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID Ariel Pablos-Méndez, and the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs Bisa Williams.
A second panel will testify before the subcommittee following the government officials. The Vice President of Program and Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse Ken Isaacs and missionary Frank Glover are both scheduled to appear before the congressional panel.
In announcing the hearing, Smith called the current situation “the worst outbreak of Ebola in history,” a sentiment echoed by one of the hearings witnesses this week.
"This is the biggest and most complex Ebola outbreak in history," CNN quoted Frieden Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
False scare, with propaganda “framing” to manipulate public opinion to garner public support for elites’ agenda.
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I’m beginning to wonder if there was more to bringing the two physicians over here for treatment. It has caused another DISTRACTION, right as Congress recesses, and the perfect opportunity for Zero to slide amnesty under the door. (No-look over THERE! Don’t worry about what I’M doing!)
How about closing the “f”ing border you damn idiots. Washington must have the biggest collection of morons in world history.
Yep, that's what most of the discussion will be about, because we have buildings full of vials of all sorts of varieties of experimental drugs that combat Ebola. /s
I'm sure that the focus of the meeting won't be how the military and National Guard can/will be utilized to enforce a quarantine and martial law if the situation deteriorates, that won't come up at all right? Do they really think we are that stupid? I mean the ones that didn't vote for Preezy.
One thing can be counted on, common sense will not be part of any discussions.
Anyone daring to employ common sense will be labeled a partisan.
“False scare, with propaganda “framing” to manipulate public opinion to garner public support for elites’ agenda.”
Oh, absolutely. Because it’s easily containable and only spreads because of ‘primitive tribal customs’ and the intentional spreading by Bilderburg NWO conspirators.
Nothing that we can fix with a few billion, right ?
As long as we give the government enough “emergency powers” ?
Obama isn’t needed to control this. ...he just wants the funding to flow and flow.
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