Just heard there's a case in Brazil, a traveler from Italy...Bring Out Your Dead
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...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
How many cases are WE getting from Italy right now.
Will CDC ever agree that recent arrivals from Italy might need to self quarantine (or heaven forbid, actually be tested?)
If the Italian is in Brazil for Carnival then he probably transmitted the disease to scores of people.
Brazil hasn’t rated a red dot on the JHU CSSE map yet, but it is on their list.