Posted on 07/30/2014 9:08:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Well, last night’s news here in Georgia told of how Emory University has now received a confirmed EBOLA case in their extra special new isolation unit. I supposed the CDC wants the victim there so they can experiment, etc. Big to-do here. The “news” people will follow the case closely (i.e., they’ll retransmit the information they get from the government).
This is fine. Okay....they’ve gone to all this trouble bringing in some victim who was likely out there in the population free as a jaybird until he got full-blown. So now we’re all waiting with bated breath about what’s to happen with him. That’s for just this one case.
What happens to the next one? Or the next 10, the next 100, the next 1000? Or worse.
What happened to our transparent proactive government? Our CDC who has multiple side businesses studying and issuing reports on gun violence, spousal abuse, and other politically-based issues that have nothing to do with addressing and attacking real diseases like this? What happened?
We’ll see just how far all this EBOLA stuff has gotten in the coming days and weeks.
People eat just about anything.
I think bringing known cases to the US is begging for trouble.
Even the CDC has had problems in the past with Ebola getting loose
http://www.restonnow.com/2014/07/31/restons-link-to-ebola-nearly-25-years-later/
That still doesn’t address the fact with a 21 day asymptotic incubation period its going to be nearly impossible to “ quarantine” the disease, unless we stop all commerce, air travel etc INTO and OUT of the effected area. That won’t happen.
Up until no we’ve been lucky all the outbreaks have been in isolated rural areas. Our luck has run out....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mecklenburg County Health Department officials said preliminary tests on a patient admitted to Carolinas Medical Center - Main’s Tuesday night who traveled from Africa, indicated malaria.
The Health Department is waiting for final test results from CMC to determine if that is the case.
Those results are expected within seven days.
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