Very interesting dateline of that article.
Mar. 18, 2004
USAMRIID at Fort Detrick, Fredrick, Maryland tends to stay out of the news, so I wonder what impetus lead to this article getting published on that date.
I am not sure, but a while back Italy had isolated some ‘boat people’ from Africa (iirc Eritrea). It seems both Italy and Albania had a few ‘illegal aliens’ who had symptoms like the initial presentation for Ebola. I can’t say I have heard or found anything on that since. (links are in the surveillance thread, a ways back, now).
If anyone could get to a boat in the Med before presenting symptoms, they might be able to make landfall in southern Europe. Of course, the more wealth and power a person had, the more likely they’d be able to move by such routes... underworld or islamist connections might smooth that path as well.
If that is true (supposedly there are 22 beds at that BSL in the nation), then it would tend to state that Emory or the Nebraska facility was somehow less than a BSL-4 facility, which would lend credence to the meme that 'any hospital could care for an Ebola patient safely'--which is what the administration has been pushing all along.
MAYbe, if you want HCW fatality rates like West Africa, but my bet is NO, they cannot.
If this gets in the wild here, all the 'feelgood' nonsense is only going to get people killed as they discover the hard way that the disease has been consistently underrated.